ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,551, issued on July 28, was assigned to JINKO SOLAR (HAINING) Co. LTD. (Haining, China).

"Photovoltaic module and method for manufacturing photovoltaic module" was invented by Zhiqiu Guo (Haining City, China), Shiliang Huang (Haining City, China) and Yingli Guan (Haining City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic module and a method for manufacturing the photovoltaic module are provided. The photovoltaic module includes a cell module including multiple cell string groups and multiple first connection structures. Each cell string group includes multiple cell strings arranged along a first direction. Each cell string inc...